Review: ‘Respect Yourself’ by Robert Gordon
I arrived in Memphis for the first time in 1996, on a mission to visit, among other places in town, Stax Records, the recording studio and label responsible for producing...
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Review: ‘The Circle’ by Dave Eggers
In April, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Forbes his personal goal for 2013: To interact with one non-Facebook employee each day. What a guy! We all know of the dot-com...
Review: ‘Salinger’ by David Shields and Shane Salerno
Talismans of high school life come and go but one has remained steadfast for generations: that slim ruby red paperback known as J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." First...
Review: ‘The Distancers’ by Lee Sandlin
Living in the Midwest means being surrounded by the ghosts of its past. They appear to us in the forms of faded advertisements on brick walls; elegant commercial buildings in...
Boy wounded in New Orleans shooting to celebrate birthday in style
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A 10-year-old boy who was wounded by gunfire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, the second time in a year he has been shot,...
Brother of New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting suspect arrested
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Police on Thursday arrested and charged the second of two street-gang-member brothers suspected of shooting into a New Orleans parade on Mother's Day and wounding 20...
Suspect arrested in connection to Mother’s Day shooting that wounded 19 people
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans marred a century-old tradition: The second line, a community parade designed to strengthen pride in hardscrabble neighborhoods, residents said....
Police identify suspect in New Orleans shooting
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans police on Monday identified a suspect in connection with a shooting at a Mother's Day parade that injured 19 people, including two children, as...
Review: ‘Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs’ by Jay Farrar
When it comes to memoirs written by musicians, the divide between the stage and page can be quite stark. Some of the best — Keith Richards' "Life" or Bob Dylan's...
‘The Inventor and the Tycoon’ tells a story of greed and innovation
The oligarchs of modern-day Wall Street have nothing on the rascally magnates of the late 19th century during the period of western expansion that brought passenger rail through the Sierra...